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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS / SPEAKERS

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Thursday, September 29th

5:00pm-
8:00pm
Registration (Baycenter/Crabber's Cove)
7:00pm-
1:00am
Showcases at Venues

Friday, September 30th

11:00am-
5:00pm

Registration (Baycenter/Crabber's Cove)
Tradeshow Exhibit (Baycenter/Crabber's Cove)
96 Rock Room (The Lighthouse) – Acoustic Signup

11:00am Signup of Mentoring/Demo Sessions (Baycenter/Crabber's Cove)
11:30am-
1:30pm
World Café Live Stage (Crabber's Cove)
11:30am–
5:00pm
Panel Discussions (booksandcoffee)
5:30pm-
7:00pm
PM Welcoming Party
Sponsored by Miller Lite at Venus on the Half Shell (Dagsworthy Street- 4 blocks from complex) Complimentary Miller Beer & Hors'Dourves. Badges/Laminates Required.
7:00pm-
1:00am
Showcases at Venues

MENTORING/DEMO LISTENING SESSIONS
The Dewey Beach Music Conference and Festival Mentoring Sessions offer unique networking opportunities. All showcase performers and registrants can sign-up for 20 minute sessions with a select group of music industry professionals. Meet one-on-one with someone who can help your act chart a course for success. Get the information and contacts you can use to advance your career. Your session also includes demo listening and critique. Artists should submit their best work and be prepared for some knee-jerk opinions and critiques regarding production, structure, vocal/lyrical content and musicianship.

MUSIC INDUSTRY MEET & GREET
Designed exclusively for the Dewey Beach Music Conference and Festival, the industry meet and greets are 60-90 minute sessions in the Booksandcoffee House. A group of top industry pros will speak on hot topics relevant to emerging talent and take questions from the group. Informal and laid back, complete with comfy chairs and fresh brewed coffees, these sessions give performers and registrants the time and place to get up close and personal.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS AT BOOKSANDCOFFEE
11:30am-
1:00pm

Getting to the Next Level - (booksandcoffee)
Industry professionals from various backgrounds will concentrate on topics and ways for artists to take the next steps to achieving success with their career. Answers to questions like "The CD is done, what's the next step," "How do we get on college radio," "Does internet marketing really work," etc.

Jeff Ross - Ross Management
Marcy Wagman - MAD Dragon Records/Drexel Univ.
Jim Thorpe - (Moderator)
Joe Mattis - Range Entertainment
Jim McGuinn - Y100 rocks.com
Michel Grey - Realize Records
Roger Sinistri - Advent Music Group
Shelly Yackus - Producer

1:30pm-
3:00pm
Meet the Talent Buyers/Agents (booksandcoffee)
Jim Thorpe (Chestnut Room, Phila. PA)
Ted Enoch - (Club 218)
Joe Szoko (Rams Head, BALT/DC)
John D (Stone Pony, Asbury Park)
Chris Lausch (Dogfish Head, DE)
Todd Erickson (More Music Group)
Jay Silverman (Degy Booking)
3:30pm-
5:00pm
Producers/Engineers Panel
Hear recordings by these panelists you will recognize, what went on in the studio, what they liked most about the recordings, then hear a song each of them wished they had produced and why.

Shelly Yakus
Rick Slater
David Ivory
Tomas Costanza
Dick Hodgin
Ian Schreir
Jim Ebert

Saturday, October 1st

11:00am–
5:00pm
Tradeshow Exhibit (Baycenter/Crabber's Cove)
11:00am-
3:00pm
96 Rock Acoustic Daytime Stage (Lighthouse)
11:30am-
1:30pm
World Café Live Stage (Crabber's Cove)
2:00pm-
4:00pm
Mentoring/Demo Sessions (Crabber's Cove)
3:15pm-
4:15pm
PRS Guitar Clinic (Rusty Rudder)
4:30pm–
5:30pm
Keynote Band Featuring “Halestorm” and their Team (Rusty Rudder)
5:30pm–
7:00pm
Artist/Industry Reception (Rusty Rudder) Sponsored by Miller Lite – Complimentary Miller Lite Badges/Laminates Required
7:00pm-
1:00am
Showcases at Venues

MENTORING/DEMO LISTENING SESSIONS
The Dewey Beach Music Conference and Festival Mentoring Sessions offer unique networking opportunities. All showcase performers and registrants can sign-up for 20 minute sessions with a select group of music industry professionals. Meet one-on-one with someone who can help your act chart a course for success. Get the information and contacts you can use to advance your career. Your session also includes demo listening and critique. Artists should submit their best work and be prepared for some knee-jerk opinions and critiques regarding production, structure, vocal/lyrical content and musicianship.

MUSIC INDUSTRY MEET & GREET
Designed exclusively for the Dewey Beach Music Conference and Festival, the industry meet and greets are 60-90 minute sessions in the Booksandcoffee House. A group of top industry pros will speak on hot topics relevant to emerging talent and take questions from the group. Informal and laid back, replete with comfy chairs and fresh brewed coffees, these sessions give performers and registrants the time and place to get up close and personal.

11:00am-
12:30pm
Label Panel
Peter Knapp (Shut Eye Records)
Gary Soffer (Atlantic Records)
Tomas Costanza (Hollywood Records)
George Stein, Esq.
Indian (Gig Records)
Robert Dippold (Trustkill Records)
11:30am-
12:30pm
The Crash Course Into The Music Industry (Sunnyside Room)
Sponsored by Indie911.com
Hosted by Jimi Heath
1:00pm-
2:30pm
Artist Panel
David Fagin
Freedy Johnston
Tomas Costanza
Keith Mack
John Faye

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS (Sunnyside Room)

Human Factor Daytime Events

1:00pm-
1:45pm
Women In Music Business
A panel of women from all aspects of the music industry reveal their secret
plans for the takeover of the music industry moderated by Paula Bellenoit of
Human Factor & GoGirlsMusic.com
1:45pm-
2:30pm

Maximizing Your Song's Potential
Producer Blake Althen gets behind the board of his portable traveling studio and takes a series of vocal and guitar tracks, and, in real time, creates
three versions of the song right on the spot. During each step, Blake explains the concepts and techniques that professional producers use to
bring out the best qualities of a song. This seminar is an audience favorite for not only its educational value, but the sheer entertainment
that it provides as well. Don’t miss this!

2:30pm-
3:15pm
Artist Development
Eugene Foley will advise you on many of the foundation elements that are needed to successfully advance your career. Topics will include song arrangement, demos, press kits, marketing, promotion, publicity, and much more. If you need a better understanding about managers, music publishing, distribution and record companies, then this session will be perfect for you! The lecture concludes with Foley's renowned
Q&A session. Bring your notebook.
4:00pm-5:00pm Understanding the Future of Surround Sound
With DVD as the standard media for music and video and with the accelerating transition to HD, Surround Sound has become an essential part of a successful project.
The seminar will present a live demonstration of techniques for mixing surround sound and will demonstrate the various surround sound compression
formats. You will experience the breathtaking beauty of Surroundtracs™ and hear how it enhances every project’s success.
3:00pm-4:30pm Getting to the Next Level, Part Deux (booksandcoffee)
Industry professionals from various backgrounds will concentrate on topics and ways for artists to take the next steps to achieving success with their career. Answers to questions like "The CD is done, what's the next step",
"How do we get on college radio", "Does internet marketing really work", etc.

Rick Slater - (Moderator)
Jimi Heath - Indie911
George Stein, Esq
Andy White (Clear Channel, North Carolina)
Jose Cuello (MTV)
Dick Gabriell (AFM)
3:15pm-4:15pm PRS Guitar Clinic (Rusty Rudder– Inside Stage C)
4:30pm-5:30pm Keynote Band - Halestorm – Panel & Performance (Rusty Rudder– Inside Stage C)
A panel of who it takes to getthe deal done. Meet the team behind the band Halestorm and the work it took to get them to their label, Atlantic Records.
5:30pm-7:00pm Artist/Industry Reception (Rusty Rudder) Sponsored by Miller Lite – Badges/Laminates Required
7:00pm-
1:00am
Showcases at Venues

Sunday, October 2nd

11:00am-
2:00pm
Last Chance to Schmooze Brunch (Rusty Rudder Deck)
Free brunch for all registrants/participants/bands. Must have your conference badge to get in.

Special thanks to HIGHWAY ONE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, and LANKFORD-SYSCO FOOD SERVICE.

 

SPEAKERS

Blake Althen
Human Factor

Beatle Bob
Sauce Magazine & the St. Louis American

Joelle Caputa
Planet Verge

Jonathan Chang
STM Records, LLC

Tomas Costanza
Sound room Studios NYC

Jose Cuello
MTV

John D'Esposito
Max Cruise Entertainment LLC.

Joe DeLuca
Why Me? Recording

Robert Dippold
Trustkill Records

Jim Ebert

Ted Enoch
Sweet Creek Studios

Todd Erickson
More Music Group

David the Great Fagin
The Rosenbergs

Gene Foley
Foley Entertainment, Inc.

Dick Gabriel
AFM

Kerry Gibson
Shut Eye Records

Michel Grey
Realize Records

Jimi Heath
Indie911

Don Hill
Don Hill's

Dick Hodgin
Osceola Studios

Ryan Hoffer
Shut Eye Records

Indian
Gig Records

David Ivory
Ivory Productions

Pete Knapp
Shut Eye Records

Chris Lausch
Dogfish Head

Joe Mattis
Range Records

Jim McGuinn

Deborah Miller

The Miller Weisberg Agency

Dave Rather
The Funk Box

John T. Robertson, Jr., Esq.
Libertad Records

Jeff Ross
Ross Management

Paul Sacksman
InterTech Media / ListenerStation.com

Ian Schreier
Osceola Studios

Mark Schulz
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.

Geoffrey Scott
Professor of Law, The Dickinson School of Law of
The Pennsylvania State University

Jennifer Sica
Planet Verge

Roger Sinistri
Advent Music Management

Jay Silverman
Degy Entertainment

Rick Slater

Paul Reed Smith
PRS Guitars

Gary Soffer
Atlantic Records

Diana Stagnato
More Music Group

George Stein, Esq.
Law Offices of George N. Stein

Joe Szoko
Rams Head Live

Jim Thorpe
Chestnut Room

Marcy Rauer Wagman, Esq.
Drexel University

Andrew "YT" White

Shelly Yakus